Jay Shafer, founder of the <a href="http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/" target="_blank">Tumbleweed Tiny House Company</a>, announced his latest venture today - a new tiny home company called <a href="http://www.fourlightshouses.com/" target="_blank">Four Lights Houses</a>. Shafer has resigned from his position at Tumbleweed to launch his new business, which will continue on in the same spirit. Four Lights Houses offers up new designs for tiny homes and will further promote small space living through hands-on workshops, books and even tiny house communities, one of which is already in the works. If you love <a href="http://inhabitat.com/7-teensy-tiny-tumbleweed-homes-we-love/" target="_blank">Tumbleweed homes</a>, you're sure to love Four Lights Houses as well!

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Four Lights Houses-Jay Shafer

Jay Shafer has been building and living in tiny houses since 1999 and has since been working to encourage more people that they don't need nearly as much living space as they think they do.

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His Tumbleweed Tiny House Company has become quite successful and hundreds of people have bought plans from him to build their own mobile tiny home.

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Today Shafer launched a new company called Four Lights Houses. As explained over at <a href="http://www.tinyhousedesign.com/2012/12/11/jay-shafer-announces-the-four-lights-tiny-house-company/" target="_blank">Tiny House Design</a>, Shafer wanted to return to his original mission, which was to design and build tiny houses.

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Shafer said, "For some of the same reasons I started designing, building and living in small houses in the first place – for more freedom and more manageability.

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"The message and design philosophy I’d built my original company on had become harder and harder to maintain as the business grew from a one-man operation into what it is today."

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Four Lights Houses currently offers three home designs and plans can be bought for $199 each with sizes ranging from 112 sq ft up to a whopping 284 sq ft.

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Four Lights Houses-Jay Shafer

Shafer has plans to unveil one new home design each month for the next five months for a total of 8 homes by next spring.

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This February he will offer up a 5 day <a href="http://www.fourlightshouses.com/pages/tiny-house-camp" target="_blank">hands-on tiny home building workshop</a> in Sebastopol, CA and he will soon offer up tiny furnishings fit for your tiny home.

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Interior of one of Shafer's tiny houses.

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Also in the works through Four Lights Houses is a tiny house community in Sonoma County aptly named The Napoleon Complex, offering up Co-Housing for the Antisocial in 2015.

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Four Lights Houses-Jay Shafer

Jay Shafer, founder of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, announced his latest venture today - a new tiny home company called Four Lights Houses. Shafer has resigned from his position at Tumbleweed to launch his new business, which will continue on in the same spirit. Four Lights Houses offers up new designs for tiny homes and will further promote small space living through hands-on workshops, books and even tiny house communities, one of which is already in the works. If you love Tumbleweed homes, you're sure to love Four Lights Houses as well!